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Re:AlphaGo beats the world champion Lee Sedol in first of fi... by Confusion on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @04:48AM (#11251949)
Chess engines and processing power have since then advanced to a point where my phone can now reliably beat Carlsen. There is no reason to suppose Go is different in that respect. In 10 years, DeepMind will fit into a phone.
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Re:AlphaGo beats the world champion Lee Sedol in first of fi... by bluecalm on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @05:34PM (#11256178)
It's way more about algorithmic improvements than hardware improvements though. Deep Blue evaluated 200 million positions per second. I don't think top programs of today could get to 2 million positions per second on a smartphone (I get about 10 million pos/second on my i7 3770 quad). It's all about improvements in search algorithms as well as position evaluation.
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Re:AlphaGo beats the world champion Lee Sedol in first of fi... by Confusion on Thursday March 10, 2016 @02:16AM (#11257750)
True. Without hardware improvements the processors that can evaluate 2 million positions per second while 'fitting' into a phone (qua processing power and power usage) would not exist though.
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Re:AlphaGo beats the world champion Lee Sedol in first of fi... by dingo_bat on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @01:35PM (#11254770)
>my phone can now reliably beat Carlsen

I've seen this written by many people but is there any solid evidence/study that proves this?

Edit: seems like Pocket Fritz and Komodo are easily able to beat grandmasters.

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